a Little Late to the Party

I was late getting started, however, you can't say I lack for team spirit......Team Edward that is!! Hahaha.
(Secrets to be told......if there is a team Carlisle I would be on it. He is way hotter to me, even though he is only a secondary character.)
A couple of months ago, Corey's boss, shocked that we had not seen Twilight, lent us the movie. I watched it while Corey was at work. Not having read the books, (I went through my vampire stage many many years ago) but knowing there was a lot of hubub about how great they are, I kept an open mind. I thought the movie was entertaining enough, albeit the characters seemed fairly shallow and the plot somewhat slow.
As the day went on I just kept thinking about the characters and little things from the movie, and decided that I needed to see it again. I ended up watching it about 5 times in a week. So then while Corey was working late one Friday night, on my way out of the grocery store I saw one of those red box video rentals and decided to rent New Moon. By now I was a complete fan! I was planning on keeping it only one night but we ended up watching it a couple of times and returning it 3 days later.
So Corey's Boss, the reason for my love of Twilight and Corey's "it's o.k" of Twilight, insisted we all go to Eclipse together. Corey was the only guy (what a good sport). For my birthday Corey's co-workers got me a Team Edward t-shirt. The plan was that the other girls and I would all wear them, but ya............who in this picture is wearing their's.................YEP!! only MOI!! The movie was great! I ended up reading the 3rd and 4th books so I am up to date on the happenings of Twilght!

Camping

After a 5 year hiatus from camping, partly due to living in NYC, we finally went camping. We got to cumberland falls in 96 degree 90% humidity weather. It was HOT!!. But look how beautiful.

Cumberland falls is the only place that has a moonbow, seen only on a full moon, with clear skies. Well we had the full moon and clear skies, until about 5 in the afternoon of the full moon, and then everything clouded over and the rain came...............so no moonbow. but we saw some beautiful falls and some beautiful hiking. It wasn't hiking in utah but it was great to get out into nature again.

Lars loved it. He would be outside 24/7 if i would let him. he did great and got dirty and played in the mud and gravel, had fun swimming in a lake and hiking in the backpack.

All in all a very successful trip.

My Utopia

As many of you know, I love Nutrition. I love reading about it and learning all there is to know regarding holistic healing and mind body wellness. And much thanks to a dear friend in NYC (Kassie) my eyes have been opened about "the conspiricy" behind the food we eat. Before Kassie my learning had leaned more toward holistic healing more than on prevention; That is not to say I didnt' eat well. I haven't eaten much in the way of refined foods except for the occasional thing in social settings, but there were still changes I could definatly make to improve even that. So this weeks marks a great turning point. I now live in Kentucky where homebirth is illegial (which is unfortunate) and it seems Natural Things were going to be hard to come by (Ex: heath food stores, homeopathics etc.) However I have finally found a farm where i can by Real milk and Pastured eggs. My first delivery came this week and i must say it tastes delicious. Since childhood I have never tolerated milk well. As a baby my mother says i threw it up a lot and perhaps i was mildly allergic (I now see that my body didn't like dead milk: the stuff that has been killed by pasturazation and mangled by homogenization) But real milk tastes great with it wonderful cream on top and i haven't had any problems drinking it. I am now looking into a fruit/veggie coop to participate in. The only thing left is to find a meat supplier to buy pastured beef and chickens. In my reading lately It has come to my attention how much nutrition is lost because we are feeding our cows the wrong foods. They were not meant to only consume grains. Whereby they are not absorbing enough good nutrients..........affecting in turn our consumption of beef is now lacking in nutrients.
It has gotten me really excited and i have finally decided to finish getting my degree in Holistic Nutrition.
My dream (although probably too grandious) would be to heal the world with natural methods.
I just know that what you eat is sooo important to not only your physcial health but to your mental health as well. I have a grandfather who in his late 90's doesn't take any medication. Can you imagine everyone over 30 to never have to take the 20 pills you're going to have to as you get older because you didn't take that great care of your bodies. I think much of what is happening in the world would stop if we really took a moment to take care of our bodies, treat them with the respect they deserve and feed them real foods. All these mental chemical diseases would dwindle and it might even be the cure to cancer:) seeing as 100 years ago cancer was a rare disease. This is my utopia.................although realisticly i know i won't be able to cure the whole world but if i help in my small area maybe it will inspire others. So Thank you Kassie for being my inspiration and for opening my eyes.

A Little Tangy

We were eating strawberries the other night and he was making such a hilarious face. And the fake laugh.........he does it all the time. He makes me laugh all the time.

He can't walk yet..........but he sure can climb

Yesterday we were working in the garden and Lars decided to brave crawling across the grass over to the swing set. He then proceeded to the slide and started climbing. I couldn't keep him away from it. I put a backpack in front of it to prevent it but he just climbed above it and got on the slide anyway. Before I took hm off and refused to let him get on again i had to take the video. It was taken on my phone so it isn't the best quality. But watch with amazement how good a climber he is for not walking yet

Hi

Lars is with his Grandma Bjarnson. He loves to wave at everyone and everything. It is pretty cute. This week has been a milestone for Lars. All of a sudden he is just hungry and is ready for 3 meals a day. Here is his first experience with noodles and a veggie cheese sauce. He loved it and ate quite a bit, which I thought was great until it made him so constipated today that he hasn't been too happy. He loves to feed himself and is his usual method of eating.

where has all the time gone.

My days seem like a crazy running together of never quite getting anything done. Really, Where has all the time gone? As I am sitting here thinking of what has gone on, my mind becomes all blurry. So here is what i do remember

I am down to only babysitting 3 days a week, which is a schedule I am much more fond of. The days I don't babysit, Lars and I go to the park and either walk, run, or play on the swings. As you can tell on the picture below with his cousin, he loves the swings. He is going to love amusements parks when he gets older.......he loves swinging high and you can toss him in the air or swing him around any which way and he just laughs. He seriously has no fear.


He has 4 teeth and only wants to eat what i am eating. In order to get him to eat his food I have to hide in my bowl and feed it to him with an adult spoon, while he is also holding an adult spoon. Such a big boy. And he would much rather have real looking food vs pureed foods. So i make him a lot of curried sweet potatoe fries (baked w/o oil of course) but seasoned with curry and garlic. They are so delicious i usually make a bunch of them so i can eat them too. I have started cooking peas for him with mint.....odd combo?..............just try it. stick a bunch of mint in the water you steam your peas in. Fantastic! or even better make split pea soup with mint in it!! yum yum. It has been fun to make all his baby food.
He is 30 inches long now and his weight gain has started stopped accelerating at such a fast rate. he was 19 lbs 3 months ago and as of last week he is 20.4 lbs. But with how chubby he was before he still looks healthy and chubby still. He is crawling around so fast and is scaling furniture. He will definatly be walking soon. He loves to play and gets so excited when he sees other kids that he says hi to them (literally says hi many times and then squeals in delight)and starts waving both his hands.

My sister in law and i started a garden. It was my idea but she is the one with the backyard. So we plotted it out. and then we decided to start growing them indoors and then we would transplant all the wonderful vegetables into our garden after the first frost. We found a cool class held through the county about gardening and our indoor veggies grew really well. So 2 weekends ago we transplanted all the spring veggies and then planted more seeds straight in the ground. Well she told me last night that all the veggies we grew indoors and then transplanted have not made it but all the seeds planted are blooming and thriving...............So next year.......we are only planting seeds straight in the ground....it was much easier anyway!
I can't wait for it all to grow......strawberries, onions, carrots, radishes, beets, corn, peas, green beans............and more. we still haven't planted the summer veggies and fruit......that will be done in May.
Lars and i went to the zoo on monday, which was fun. he did great and loved the animals. and he and i fed the giraffes.......i'll post the picture when i can find the camera. Giraffes tongues are like 2 feet long and them come out and you put a cracker on it. Suprisingly it wasn't very slobbery.